Re: Use the void and schema.org [Was; Re: LODAtlas 1.0 release - Browsing Linked Data Catalogs]

On 4 Oct 2018, at 12:00, emmanuel.pietriga@inria.fr<mailto:emmanuel.pietriga@inria.fr> wrote:

- Has VoID achieved good coverage yet? (I remember reading that few datasets were exposing VoID descriptions, but that may have been several years ago and things might have changed)

Harvesting VoIDs/schema.org<http://schema.org> would be a good way of encouraging up take. It is likely that there will be a big increase in schema.org<http://schema.org> markup now that Google have released a dataset search tool.
https://www.blog.google/products/search/making-it-easier-discover-datasets/

- How do we get those decentralized VoID descriptions? Is there a crawling service somewhere that would give us access to such descriptions?

Starting, as Jerven suggested, by allowing people to provide you the URI of the VoID, but also following the links in VoIDs to other datasets.

Alasdair

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